“mom” I’d whisper as I rose toward the TV, “mom? Are you watching this?” I’d test to see if she was asleep before peeking under her short...nightgown and jerking off quietly. One afternoon I tattled on my sister about some petty thing and she responded by telling mom about the secret crack. “Mike keeps waking me when he sneaks in my room to peek through the floor mom!” she tattled. Mom simply blew it off with no response at all at that time, so I kept peaking. Peaking really began to pay off. There was a small sectional placed facing this stall, so that anyone could sit and observe. The tiles seemed to be made of a softer rubbery material, which gave a little as the sophomores tied Rachel’s hands down to the grate, a metal mesh that served instead of a toilet… “Do you need to go already?” The taller sophomore asked. Maybe it was the fact they were in actual clothes, but every other resident of the house seemed remarkably beautiful. Not that any of the pledges weren’t, particularly. It took her a bit of time to settle down from the crying and she looked at him, blinking and said: ‘I’m so sorry that I’m such a blubbering baby here.’ ‘Don’t you worry about that,’ he replied. ‘Oh, my lovely, handsome Mike! What they’ve done to you! What those evil, evil people have done to you!’ she whispered fiercely to him. He held her still, and then, when she broke away from the hug, her eyes brightened and she smiled at him, a dazzling smile. ‘Welcome, love,’ she said. ‘It’s such a. “I have no doubt in my mind that you believe that. But I don’t see any signs of it. I see a spoiled brat who thinks she can buy anything and bully anyone to achieve what she wants, and who was never denied a thing growing up. I believe love shows in the denial. I believe love means saying ‘no’. When you love your child enough NOT to give into their every whim.”“Money is power. It always has been. It always will be.”“I’m sure that’s true. I’ve studied enough history to know it. And I’m a.